Gettin Arab Money?

DJ Southanbred sheds a little light on the dynamic between Soulja Boy and his sidekick, the cryptically named Arab. Apparently Soulja Boy has been letting the dollars get between him and his homey.
This summer when Touch and I went to do some picture taking at Hot 107.9's Birthday Bash, we scoped Arab playing the back while Soulja Boy went through the press junket. Now I've been around long enough to recognize envy in a person's eyes. The way Arab was looking at Soulja Boy is the way I remember looking at this Jewish girl at her Bat Mitzvah: Trying to put on a "I'm happy for you" smile but just not able to hide the "What did you do to deserve this that I didn't?" pout.



Poor guy. Arab, if you're reading this, I got one word for you: Embezzlement.

Panoramic View

Here's the new mixtape from my man Jdown. It's free so spread it around, burn it, play it at parties, in your car, with your auntie at Thanksgiving, whatever. Here's a link.

I'll see you up there

I try not to just steal shit outright from other blogs, but I had to put this up. Jim Jones checks in with Kid Cudi and lets his thoughts out on the track. It's more like rhyming spoken word, but I gotta admit it's hot. It doesn't hurt that the original track is so fuckin sick.

Jim Jones and Kid Cudi - Day N Nite (Remix)

Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper

I don't usually fuck with the VH1 Hip Hop Honors but I thought this feature on their website was cool: rappers discussing the impact other rappers had on them. For example, Big Boi on Too $hort:

My uncles were in the military so they used to get stuff from all around the world. I remember my uncles came back with Too $hort. They were my idols and I used to love what they were doing. Being in the military, they were still some street cats, too. My Uncle Trick and I just thought [Too $hort’s music] was the most fascinating thing ever, [raps] “Cuss words, just let ‘em flow, motherf*ck*n' sh*t b*tch god damn *ssh*l*.” It was the most filthiest mouth I ever heard. I was only like 10 years old, but I was like, “Okay, I’m f*ck*ng with him.” That’s what brought me and Dre [André 3000] together, our taste in music. We was and still are on Too $hort. We liked everything from Tribe to Leaders of the New School. [My favorite Too $hort album] gotta be that Life Is … Too $hort because it was the hardest one. That was the first one that I got introduced to. The beats and all the sh*t he was talkin’ about was for real from the whole Bay Area and how he came up. He was just so cool, like, “Damn, that’s a motherf*ck*r that I want a ride home from school with.” That’s an O.G. cat that’ll sit there and smoke a j with you and say some new sh*t.

Devin the Dude on Slick Rick
DJ Drama on De La Soul
Killer Mike on Cypress Hill
Joe Budden on Naughty By Nature

New shit from Jdown - This Is My Flow (Luchini Freestyle)

When conversations get twisted and the truth gets lost yall...

Earlier this year we found out that Devin the Dude would not be renewing his contract with his label of 15 years, Rap A Lot Records. According to Devin,

"Rap-A-Lot has been my family for a long time and there’s no bad blood at all."

It seems the love doesn't go both ways. J Prince's notorious griminess has left a lasting legacy, and it seems that they are trying to stick it to the Dude for jumping ship. Today marked the release of Devin's newest album, Landing Gear. It also marks the release of "Hi Life", which is basically a compilation of some of Devin's older work. The crucial difference is that Hi Life is being released under the Rap A Lot label, and you can bet that Devin isn't seeing a dime. If he is, it's still incredibly trife of Rap A Lot to drop it on the same day as his real album, which will no doubt cannibalize his sales. Dude fans, here's what I suggest: Buy Landing Gear and support your boy. In the meantime, download Hi Life. Don't let this shady industry shit ruin the man's shine.

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Jared Swilley of Black Lips Fights for Women's Rights, kind of

photos: Dan Monick

It’s no secret that the Black Lips are a destructive bunch. The Atlanta bred, blues-tinged garage band once held a party encouraging attendees to destroy the house they were performing in. It also happened to be the house where they lived. Aside from destruction, Black Lips shows are known to include just about every bodily fluid that can be dispensed at will. Combine that with the essential rock star drug and alcohol abuse, and it’s a wonder the band can make it through a show unscathed. But according to 23-year-old bassist Jared Swilley, the guys aren’t even the fighting type. It’s when a young lady’s honor is at stake that the Black Lips become the quintessential Southern gentlemen you’d never mistake them for. Currently touring to promote their latest album, the boys are too ready to continue their path of destruction and maybe even hand out a few down-home ass kickings.

“We were at South by Southwest three years ago playing a secret show in our friend’s basement and a bunch of redneck metal-head dudes showed up. We had our ex-guitarist [Jack Hines’] girlfriend on tour and another girl that we were all friends with. [The rednecks] were getting kind of rowdy and grab assin’ and they touched both of the girls’ butts. We didn’t wanna have a fight about it cause we’re not really that aggressive. I was just like, ‘Come on guys, don’t do that. Say you’re sorry.’ They were just being total dicks about it like, ‘Fuck that!’ They were calling me a white belt hipster or something over and over again. So I went over to the rest of my band and our friends, and I was telling them what happened and they’re like, ‘Which guys was it?’ I pointed at the guy and I guess he thought that I was calling him out. The night before, I had to go to the hospital because I cracked my head open, so I had 10 fresh stitches in my head. He walks up to me and slaps me right on the stitches. The second he hits me, everyone in my band, and a couple guys in the other band that were opening, all punch him at once and just take him out. He gets up covered in blood and all his friends see what’s going on. There’s like 10 of them and probably about an equal number of us, but they were way bigger than us. So we start scrappin’. This other band that we’re friends with called The Spits were [onstage] playing and they’re big guys and pretty tough and they’re kind of like our older brothers. We were like, ‘Spits, help!’ They came out and just start annihilating people. Their roadie had one of those tiny Swiss Army Knives that was like three inches long and he stabbed one of the guys right in the leg. Their drummer, who’s also a bouncer on his off time, had this guy in a grapple hold. [A redneck] spit on him or something, so he just bent all of his fingers back and I think he broke them.

“Our guitar player, Cole, is this squirrelly little guy of Columbian descent and he kept running up and getting secret shots on the big guys. We were holding one of them down and he’s like, ‘I don’t wanna fight anymore, I just wanna get one shot at that little Mexican bastard!’ At this point the girl whose house it was had already called the police. They’re leaving the house and the cops showed up right then. The girl who lived at the house was like, ‘Fuck you, assholes!’ So they said something like, ‘You fat dyke bitch!’ The cop was a fat lady, probably a lesbian, so she immediately arrested all the guys and we were all standing out in the front yard waving to them. It was pretty funny. And I hate rednecks, so that felt really good.”

When the Levee Breaks

I was listening to Zeppelin IV tonight and decided to look up "When the Levee Breaks" on Wikipedia. As it turns out, it's a remake of an old blues song originally by Kansas Joe McCoy (predecessors to Gnarls Barkley in using one name for a duo). Further inspection revealed this archive site with free MP3 downloads of the original song. Ah, the glory of Wikipedia...

Some new school

As you may know, Gucci is going back to jail. If you're the Mane, that's gotta take some of the wind out of your sails, especially when you just teamed up with Barack ODrama to release a long-awaited, white-hot mixtape, Gangsta Grillz: The Movie. Keep an ear out for all the shots at Jeezy. Is the beef gonna reignite? Here's the link from DatPiff.

B.O.B. (of "Haterz" fame) has a new single out, "I'll Be In the Sky". If Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" can sodomize the charts like it did, then this one should have some legs underneath it. If you like the song, call and request that shit on your local station.

GEORGIA
WBTS Atlanta (404) 741-0955
WVEE / V-103 Atlanta (404) 741-9833
WSTR / Star 94 Atlanta (404) 741-9400
WBTS / 95.5 The Beat Atlanta (404) 741-0955
WWQQ / Q100 Atlanta (404) 741-1005
WHTA / HOT 107.9 Atlanta (404) 741-1079
WIBB / 97.9 Macon (800) 813-8418
WFXM / Power 107 Macon (478) 745-3301
WQBT / 94.1 The Beat Savannah (912) 947-0941

NEW YORK
WHTZ / Z100 New York 1-800-242-0100
WQHT New York (800) 223-9797
WKTU New York (800) 245-1035